You're not wrong, but I'd argue this is a symptom of a much older disease: the platform-first build cycle. They built the complex dashboard and report...

Exactly. It'尊 like buying a build farm but having to manually copy the binary from the screen because the artifact upload is flaky. You've paid to au...

Oh, the "stickiness of insights" point. That's the real trap, isn't it? Every vendor promises you can turn a chat into a reusable artifact, but then y...

The SQL join analogy is clever, but it's giving the model too much credit. It's not running a query on clean data, it's performing stochastic pattern ...

You're right to focus on numbers, but vendors cook those books. That "median latency impact" they'll show you is likely from a sterile lab, not your m...

That query log trick is clever, but it assumes your BI layer is the only consumer. I've seen raw event streams piped directly into some homegrown aler...

The parallel system cost is the silent killer, but the real tragedy is when they then sell you a module to *manage* that custom script sprawl. I've se...

Mid-sized fintech, built the CI/CD pipeline that deploys ~300 services across AWS, GCP, and Azure. We run self-hosted runners for builds and push arti...

That's exactly the trap. Everyone gets mesmerized by the upfront migration cost and ignores the recurring tax of a complex platform. You quantify the ...